The Dodd-Frank Act mandates that certain standard OTC derivatives, also known as swaps, must be traded on swap execution facilities (SEFs). Using message-level data, we provide a granular analysis of dealers' and customers' trading behavior on the two largest dealer-to-customer SEFs for index...

We study financial networks and reveal a new kind of systemic risk arising from what we call default ambiguity, i.e., a situation where it is impossible to decide which banks are in default. Specifically, we study the clearing problem: given a network of banks interconnected by financial...

We study the influence of credit default swaps (CDS) trading on the costs of bond intermediation. After CDS initiation, CDS firms pay 12-28% (8-20 basis points) lower underwriting fees than similar non-CDS firms do. Underwriting fees decline more for riskier issuers and illiquid bonds for which...

We examine the impact of CDS trading and the lifting of short sales restrictions on the profitability of reported insider trades within US financial firms. We find evidence that executive directors possess significant insider knowledge about their firm's risk prior to the initiation of CDS...

Regulators may not afford to pay investment bank rates to quantitative experts and maintain scores of PhDs in investment analysis, however serious attempt should be made to understand the markets and the products which they regulate. Regulatory capture is a fundamental risk for regulators of...

This article presents a new model for valuing a credit default swap (CDS) contract that is affected by multiple credit risks of the buyer, seller and reference entity. We show that default dependency has a significant impact on asset pricing. In fact, correlated default risk is one of the most...

In this article, we first construct the empirical measure of spread (EMS) to capture the dynamics of quoted CDS spreads. It is the measure of creditworthiness of a company derived from the asset model in Egami and Kevkhishvili [2017]. We then use the information provided by the EMS to derive a...

Buyers of a credit default swap (CDS) are not only exposed to the credit risk of the underlying reference entity, but also to the default risk of the seller of the swap. The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of the recent implementation of central counterparty clearing (CCP) on...

The one-side defaultable financial derivatives valuation problems have been studied extensively, but the valuation of bilateral derivatives with asymmetric credit qualities is still lacking convincing mechanism. This paper presents an analytical model for valuing derivatives subject to default...

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of hedging a defaultable bond, that may not be at par, with a credit default swap (CDS) by quantifying the variance of the hedging errors and determining the optimal hedge ratio. The static hedging framework uses bond recovery and time to default, which are...